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The new design hasn't worked. In particular, when browsing a subreddit, the first page or so of posts will load, but that's it. The "Next" button that used to t
by deathanatos 8y ago
The new design hasn't worked. In particular, when browsing a subreddit, the first page or so of posts will load, but that's it. The "Next" button that used to take you to the next page is gone, which rather limits what you can view. I think its supposed to be infinite scrolling, but that simply hasn't worked, if that's what is supposed to happen.
Make it work. Make it fast (or pretty). That order.
- huac 8y agothat's your adblocker preventing the infinite scroll from loading more items
- stcredzero 8y agoAre you on the team? Was there a clamoring from the users for infinite scroll? Was there a study of how it would effect the typical user?
- robbomacrae 8y agoPeople love that feature!
- stcredzero 8y agoHow is that quantified?
- robbomacrae 8y agoFirst off I'm not on the redesign team BTW so haven't been as involved in this analysis enough to adequately answer your question and also my statement is one that you can quantify as such. But the reason I stated it is that A: it was a heavily requested feature B: comments regarding infinite scroll have been weirdly positive (contrasting my point in another reply about most comments are from very strongly opinionated users) and C: usage statistics ie I can assure you when compared side by side people make more of the equivalent page turns. Personally I like both methods but infinite scroll was a clear winner for us.
- tscs37 8y agoBut why is there no static fallback for when some script doesn't work? BetterReddit allows me to use both methods concurrently on the old design, why is the new design limited to a method that doesn't work for me?
- deathanatos 8y agoWhat ad-blocking I do is limited to very specific domains; reddit is not among them. (I manage my own blacklists; I do not use the built-ins.) Further, I see this behavior in Incognito, and my understanding is that extensions are not active in Incognito.
- Harkins 8y agoThe search engine broke, too. Maybe it's it's having a negative term like "javascript -npm" or searching only a single subreddit, but changing "www" to "old" in the url often takes a search from zero results to hundreds. And that's on top of how much slower it is, how it starts with a sidebar covering the page, janky lightbox scrolling, fixed headers covering the page, autoplay everything, etc. Search and other major features don't work.
- mrep 8y agoTheir search is so bad it cannot even find subreddits when I type it in word for word perfectly. I'm shocked they threw all this money into a redesign when they haven't even implemented the most basic of search implementations.